Warning: This post contains spoilers At first glance whenen it premiered on Netflix in 2016, Stranger Things looked a lot like Super 8, that awful overrated Steven Spielbergian fan fiction movie from J.J. Abrams that should’ve been easily called Close Encounters of the Goonies Kind. I’m not saying that the movie was one of theContinue reading “‘Stranger Things’ Fourth Season Worth The Long Wait”
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Romanticizing The Police Has Led To Expectations They Can’t (And Don’t Want To) Uphold
WARNING: This post does contain some references to sexual assault, domestic abuse and child abuse cases!! In the past eight days as the events of the massacre at Uvalde Robb Elementary School become more clearer, a lot of people are still wrecking their brains over why the Uvalde Police Department and the Uvalde School DistrictContinue reading “Romanticizing The Police Has Led To Expectations They Can’t (And Don’t Want To) Uphold”
‘Obi-Wan’ Has The High Ground
With all due respect to Sir Alec Guinness, but I prefer Ewan McGregor’s performance more as Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi. Guinness in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope played Kenobi as an old, wise man who was smart enough to know when to fight and when to do “other alternatives. “But in The EmpireContinue reading “‘Obi-Wan’ Has The High Ground”
It’s Insane Why We Don’t Take Mental Health More Seriously
I know that it’s gotten to a point where every month, every week, every day it seems is Something Something Day, Week or Month. But since it is Memorial Day today and May is Mental Health Awareness Month, both of them seem to go hand and hand. Ask yourself. How many people buried at ArlingtonContinue reading “It’s Insane Why We Don’t Take Mental Health More Seriously”
‘Angelyne’ Is A Muddled Mess About Celebrity Sensationalism
Peacock’s Angelyne limited series spends about four hours telling you what you can easily find out in four minutes of a Wikipedia search. Hollywood is a very incestuous industry and I’m sure after hearing Netflix was doing a limited series about Anna Delvey; Hulu was doing a limited series about Elizabeth Holmes and Candy Montgomery,Continue reading “‘Angelyne’ Is A Muddled Mess About Celebrity Sensationalism”
‘Keepers Of The Ashes’ Spotlights A Dark Time In The Heartland
Keepers of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders, couldn’t have been released at a worse time. The four-part docuseries dropped on Hulu on Tuesday, May 24, the same day 19 kids were killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Not a lot of people probably wanted to sit through four hours of aContinue reading “‘Keepers Of The Ashes’ Spotlights A Dark Time In The Heartland”
The Tragic Life Of Phil Hartman
If there ever was a celebrity that you would think would be the victim of a murder-suicide, Phil Hartman would be on the very bottom of the list next to Fred Rogers and Bob Ross. But on May 28, 1998, news reports came in that Hartman, 49, had been fatally shot by his wife, Brynn,Continue reading “The Tragic Life Of Phil Hartman”
George Carlin Documentary A Fitting Ode To Legendary Comic/Actor
Back in 2004, George Carlin was appearing on The View to promote the movie Jersey Girl, directed by Kevin Smith, in which he plays Ben Affleck’s father and the grandfather to the titular character. The co-hosts were commenting about how he came off as just another grey-haired grandfather. George Carlin’s American Dream, a two-part documentaryContinue reading “George Carlin Documentary A Fitting Ode To Legendary Comic/Actor”
‘Jackass 4.5’ Rises Below Vulgarity
The best thing to say about Jackass 4.5 is what Mel Brooks told a woman who wasn’t a fan of his movie The Producer and called it vulgar. Brooks responded that the movie “rises below vulgarity.” Released recently on Netflix, the documentary-style movie like all previous Jackass point 5s is part behind the scenes lookContinue reading “‘Jackass 4.5’ Rises Below Vulgarity”
The Day Tom Cruise Went Nucking Futs
I remember a moment from my teenage years in which I had to excuse myself to the restroom as I was seeing a movie at the movie theater in the town I grew up in northwest Georgia. There I was washing my hands as some younger kid came in. I was in high school asContinue reading “The Day Tom Cruise Went Nucking Futs”
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